Note 1.Whoeer has travelld lifes dull round, Whereer his stages may have been,May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.William Shenstone: Written on a Window of an Inn. [back]

Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswells intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswells!Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back]